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X. MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES OF SWEDEN.
Book-cover from G. Hedberg, Stockholm.
models, but to-day, we make all sorts of ceramic work, from simple
pottery up to the finest china of a wonderful beauty and sobriety of
line and colour. Specially praiseworthy are the charming vases and
exquisite feldspar porcelaine of Rörstrand and the objects of art of
Gustafsberg, made of china with an illusory metallic lustre. By their
invention of new pure and original motives, the artists A. Wallander
and G. G:son Wennerberg have a great share in the quick
advancement of these two manufactures. Mr. Wennerberg’s talent appears also
in the fine coloured glasses of Kosta. These glassworks, as well as
those of Reijmyra, have gained distinction through their plates,
decanters, glasses, etc., of a crystal thoroughly white, uniform, of a
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